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Christian Best

Robert Arnold

UWRT 1101

12 November 2015

Ethnography Report

College reshmen are !omplete party animals" College reshmen don#t party eno$gh"

College reshmen barely do any %or&" College reshmen have too m$!h %or&" College reshmen

are mat$re" College reshmen are needy and !l$eless" College reshmen eat too m$!h" College

reshmen don#t eat eno$gh" College reshmen sleep too m$!h" College reshmen don#t sleep

eno$gh" 'any people thin& they $nderstand %hat !ollege reshmen do on a daily basis( b$t in

reality they don#t" Everyone ta&es glan!es at o$r liestyle and orm their o%n opinions and bias

abo$t o$r lives) only to reali*e that they only &no% hal o the real story"

+$st as everyone else) , made ass$mptions abo$t the !ollege liestyle beore , a!t$ally got

here and began e-perien!ing the liestyle irsthand" , tho$ght that the !ollege %o$ld be a !onstant

party) a b$et every night) a ne% o$nd reedom) b$t also the hardest thing , %o$ld ever have to

e-perien!e" .ittle did , &no% that the party sometimes ends early %hen yo$ have an /00 A'

!lass every 'onday morning" The b$et %ill 3$i!&ly be!ome a 3$i!& bag o !hips and some

apple 4$i!e every other night" And the hardest part o the %or& is a!t$ally getting the motivation

to do it"

o %hat is the o$tside perspe!tive6 While trying to ind dierent perspe!tives rom

o$tsiders , o$nd that the yo$nger pop$lation vie%s !ollege reshmen as more o a party animals

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and thin& that %e are al%ays 4$mping rom party to party) %hereas ad$lts and parents vie%

!ollege as more o hard %or& and dedi!ation" Neither side %as !ompletely %rong b$t neither side

%as !ompletely a!!$rate) it %as more that both sides %ere 4$st la!&ing the a!t$al reality o o$r

liestyle"

,s it not li&e %hat they sho% in the movies6 This is the irst response , re!eived %hen ,

as&ed an average high s!hool reshmen ho% she vie%ed !ollege and !ollege reshmen" 7Contin$e

this paragraph8

9onestly the best response ,#ve re!eived %as rom the high s!hool senior" College

reshmen sho$ld be e-!ited that they#re o$t o their parents# ho$se" ,#m ready or !ollege: As

soon as the %ords let her mo$th , began la$ghing so lo$d) %hi!h serio$sly !on$sed her"

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, &no% it#s a lot o %or& and it#s probably really hard) b$t , have serio$s aith in every

one o yo$" ;arents !an be so en!o$raging: